Pop 3D

Its lowercase sits low: the x-height is 73.5% of the cap height, where the median for display fonts is 76.2%, lower than 61 of the 97 other display fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l line up with the capitals (100% of their height), and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 26.4% of the cap height below the baseline, deeper than 71 of the 97 other display fonts. Pop 3D runs 8.1% narrower than the median for display fonts: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 82.2% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 92.7%). The o is close to a circle, 1.07 times as wide as it is tall, and W is the widest capital, at 1.21 times the width of H. Round letters overshoot: O rises 2.5% of the cap height above H and dips 1.3% below the baseline.

Ink covers 47.7% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), darker than 72 of the 97 other display fonts. Each letter carries a solid 3D extrusion joined to its face.

Its 3,966 characters include 3,756 Chinese and 105 Latin letters, plus 105 figures, punctuation marks and symbols; 53 of the Latin letters are accented or special forms beyond A to Z. The word space measures 34.6% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 13.6% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 83 kerning pairs, more than 49 of the 97 other display fonts. The tightest of them is FJ, which closes up by 20.9% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Pop 3D will not line up exactly.

7 other library fonts share Pop 3D's underlying letter structure. Compared with Pop 3D, League Sans rings each letter with an outline. Frosty Duplex adds caps of snow, sets 7% narrower and adds Korean (2,350 common syllables). Billboard Condensed keeps the letters plain, without the 3D effect and has a 78% x-height.